I know many people use Ad-Aware to find their Spyware and Adware on their system.

 

Lately as Matt (Mtl) will know my computer has been running like a bag of poop. Loading anything would take 5 times longer as my HDD would start loading and then suddenly stop for 3 seconds or so before loading for a second or 2 and then stopping.

 

Anti-Virus found nothing, Scan Disc and Defrag found very little, and Ad-Aware found nothing really bad, just the usual stuff in the Internet Temp directory.

 

I tried to find another Spy Ware searcher and found one at

http://www.webroot.com

 

Its called Spysweeper and running it found over 1700 tracers. Yes 1700 :eek: as well as 30 processes and entries in the registry that an up to date Ad-Aware didnt find.

 

Now the computer is back to normal running as it should. Give the program a try as it is a free trial for a month I think. You will be shocked at what it finds.

 

Stuart

I will give that a go Stu,see how it compares to adaware6.0;)

Much better than adaware IMHO, good find, cleaned free programmes off of my system I didn't know were there.

 

how many of those 1700 were cookies for adult sites ;)

Just did mine...........

 

I ran Ad-aware to see what it found........a couple of things and cleared those.....

 

So I ran Spy Sweeper and it found...........

 

55 software

2,065 traces........

 

WTF.......

 

I feel clean again!! ;)

 

Matty.

You guys obviously do a lot of bad stuff - it only found 1 trace on mine !

Originally posted by AndyP

You guys obviously do a lot of bad stuff - it only found 1 trace on mine !

 

You are obviously very good at covering up your bad stuff :D

Bleeding hell, thats a good piece of software, it does a lot more detailed scan than ad-aware.

 

I ran a ad-aware 6.0 scan first, found 5 traces (usual software)

 

I didn't erase them

 

Then ran spysweeper and found 1146 traces and 34 software.

 

I must stop looking at porn:rofl: :rofl: :dance:

 

Rich:D

I think computers who are connected directly to the internet get the grunt of all the crap.

 

I am the gateway to the internet and it found 1500 tracers. I ran it on another computer in the house and found about 40 tracers and 20 programs

I found a trojan,said it was installed in 2002 called UK Video anyone know anything about it?

i had it too, its a porn dialler, i has around 1000 things and around 70 sotware thingies.. shocking!! cleaned up now and i reckon the pc is runnin loads better, top piece of software

i had it too, its a porn dialler, i has around 1000 things and around 70 sotware thingies.. shocking!! cleaned up now and i reckon the pc is runnin loads better, top piece of software

EHHHHHHHHHHHH! Scoops I don't look at any porn :shock:

unfortunately, i dobt think you have to, this shit just loads on you pc, i think uk vido is onre of those things that tries to use you modem to dail premium rate sites.

unfortunately, i dobt think you have to, this shit just loads on you pc, i think uk vido is onre of those things that tries to use you modem to dail premium rate sites.

Hmmm,Can't understand why it comes up as a trojan :confused: :confused: :confused:

Methinks some people should be using Evidence Eliminator!

Does anyone know if this programme affects a network set up? Because spy tracker programmes get confused about networks - so I heard?

Geoff.

My dad used it at work and his computer is a domain server for about 10 computers. Had no problems afterwards

My dad used it at work and his computer is a domain server for about 10 computers. Had no problems afterwards

Thanks,

Geoff.